Roisin Markham

Roisin Markham lives near the sea in Cahore, North County Wexford. She is a steward to the land, 18 oaks and a Crann Fia Úll in their place. Where she raised three free-range sons that have gone to sing their own songs in the world. They have started to come back, it’s very confusing! At home its mostly the dogos, her hero husband and her aspirations to create a food forest. She grows food badly and makes terrible tiktoks about it.

She believes that a low carbon Post-Growth Society is the future worth living into. A time traveler working with futures, kin and current ancestors this is where we will find answer and agency for the polycrisis – housing, fossil fuels, biodiversity crisis, biosphere collapse and manmade climate change.

Roisin lives and works with the three simple principles

• Care at the core
• Do no harm
• 30% back to nature

To be a good ancestors is to pull our impact back within planetary boundaries and create a strong social foundation where no one falls short of life’s essentials.
In 2020 Roisin established the Irish Doughnut Economics Network, IDEN. In 2022 she began working more closely with FEASTA and from 2023 the WEALL Ireland Hub.

Roisin believes if we want to live in a democracy then we have to practice it and use our public voices.

Roisin draws daily and writes weekly, this website aims to share her work in business and beyond as she builds futures worth living into.
She writes as a citizen of Ireland and the EU, she recognises it’s global north perspective and is working on decolonising her perspective. Yes even as an Irish person.

Part of my Story

I work on closing the gap between policy, strategy and operations for 2030 and 2050.

Sometimes that’s strategic design, facilitation, eco-literacy, economic literacy, corporate sustainability education, climate cafes and other times its management consultancy, co-design, stakeholder engagement, strategic PMO or creative projects.

I work across sectors, and silos bridging and connecting people. I bring relational and multi-discipline design plus systems thinking approaches to organisations, municipalities and communities.
I’m innovative and creative.

+30 years of working across software, e-commerce, professional services, financial services, aviation, strategic & service design, speculative design & innovation, education, art & culture, not for profits.

Prior to 2014 Roisin kept an active blog practice on blogspot, on her studio and creative social research arts practice.
Swims with seals 2022 – 2013, personal photography project celebrating her open water sea swims blog.

At the beginning of 2025 she decided to write weekly Studio Notes that are more life notes. She refuses to use AI for them, practicing reflection back across the week, synthesising, ask a question of the reader sharing resources and a view to the week coming.